Led by Israeli Prof. Hossam Haick, an international team of researchers proved that many diseases can be detected by "smelling" a patient's breath.

As diabetes grows more rampant and threatens to affect one in three Americans in less than four decades, it is no wonder that extensive research is being done to treat and prevent the condition. In Israel, two researchers have made significant advancement in treating type I and detecting type II diabetes.

Until today, schizophrenia could only be physically diagnosed after a patient's death. For the first time, Israeli researchers have found a way to biologically detect schizophrenia by analyzing tissue from the patient's nose.

Examining patients and taking a medical history is more useful to hospital doctors in diagnosing patients than high-tech CT scans, according to a study from Israel. Doctors said that such tests given right after patients showed up in emergency rooms only helped with diagnosis in roughly one of three cases